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Aug 30, 2016 · Beyond seminal notions and ideations of educational leadership, developing and sometimes groundbreaking theories contribute to the existing canonical literature in the field. Nonetheless, most theories of educational leadership comprise key elements, which often include capabilities, approaches, and practices.
- Distributed Leadership
- Critique of Distributed Leadership
- Dispersed Leadership
- Hybrid Leadership
- Transformational Leadership
- Generative Leadership
- Curriculum and Instructional Leadership
- Critiques of Instructional Leadership
There have been many models and theories of educational leadership that have been promoted and one that has gained particular attention and favour is distributed leadership (Liljenberg, 2015; Youngs, 2009). Distributed leadership was first developed by Gronn (2002) and Spillane (2006) as a conceptual and theoretical framework for understanding the ...
While the sentiments of distributed leadership outlined above seem positive, the conception is not without issues and concerns. Some of these are philosophical or theoretical, some are practical and some are related to how it is interpreted and the ways it is taken up and used. Howard Youngs (2009) is one who has critiqued this and suggested that, ...
Similar, but not the same as distributed leadership, is the concept of dispersed leadership. Central to this was the notion of productive leadershipwhich included the following domains: 1. 1. focus on pedagogy; 2. 2. focus on management structures and strategies; 3. 3. focus on culture of care; 4. 4. focus on professional development and supporting...
Hybrid leadershipFootnote 4 was developed by Peter Gronn (2009, 2011), partly in response to some of the shortcomings that he perceived with distributed leadership. In particular, with the (re)emergence of distributed ideas of leadership around the turn of the century in response to the heroic individualistic models that dominated in the two decade...
Another form or conception of leadership that has gained popularity and acceptance is transformational leadership (Leithwood, Jantzi, & Steinbach, 1999). According to Urlick (2016): The notion of transformational leadership was seen as providing a foundation for understanding and developing principals’ leadership to include managerial, strategic, a...
Another notion of leading that is still developing is generative leadership (Edwards-Groves & Rönnerman, 2013), which specifically links leading and professional learning in educational sites. Specifically, in their study, they found that leading practices developed from ongoing programmes of professional learning that focused not only on student l...
The conceptualisations of curriculum or instructionalleadership are included here because often, in practice in schools and other educational sites, it is middle leaders who provide this leadership. However, these models were primarily developed for principals or positional heads, so there is not a direct relationship or application to middle leade...
Notwithstanding the points made above, about the apparent benefits of instructional leadership, there have been some issues and concerns expressed. At a fundamental level, there is some ambiguity about the concepts and nature of the model, particularly in more recent years where it has been challenged by other conceptions and theories, such as dist...
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Dec 21, 2023 · Overview. Editors: Donnie Adams. Includes educational leadership and management theories and models in the 21st century. Includes international authors with deeply embedded understanding of educational leadership. Also management in schools’ context, based on engagement with context specific policies, practices and research. 1729 Accesses.
"Theories of Educational Leadership" published on by Oxford University Press. From its beginnings in the 1940s, leadership research has been conducted as a scientific activity, with the aim of discovering the essence of leadership that, once found, would provide social–organizational benefits.
Models of educational leadership and management. The author has presented and classified theories of educational management for over 20 years (Bush, 1986; 1995; 2003). This work categorises the main theories into six major models: formal, collegial, political, subjective, ambi-guity, and cultural (see Table 1).
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Jan 1, 2018 · Definition. Educational leadership is defined as the quality and competence of exerting leading influence on educational organization members, teachers and faculty, students, and diverse stakeholders within and beyond certain educational organizations and settings toward the achievement of educational visions and goals.
May 11, 2020 · SAGE Publications, May 11, 2020 - Education - 208 pages. This fifth edition of Tony Bush’s bestselling text explores the links between educational management theories and the main models of...
